Marie Curie
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- £10.99
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
Celebrated author and artist Demi beautifully portrays the life and story of Marie Curie, the revolutionary scientist and winner of two Nobel Prizes.
Maria Salomea Sklodowaska was born on November 7, 1867. Her family called her Manya, but the world would remember her by another name: Marie Curie, one of the greatest scientists who ever lived.
In a time when few women attended college, Marie earned degrees in physics and mathematics and went on to discover two elements: radium and polonium. She also invented a new word along the way: radioactive. This book celebrates her momentous achievements while also educating its readers about her scientific accomplishments and their implications.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her trademark ornamental art style, Demi illustrates the life of Marie Curie, born in 1867 Poland as Maria Salomea Sklodowska. Following a stint as a governess, she pursued an unconventional path for women of her time, graduating from the Sorbonne with degrees in physics and mathematics. Marriage to physicist Pierre Curie and having a child didn't derail Curie's systematic research into uranium, which Demi describes in detail. Through thoughtful storytelling and sophisticated art, Demi explores the implications, positive and negative, behind Curie's discovery of polonium and radium. The doll-like figures don't bring much emotion to the story's more upsetting moments Pierre's death in a traffic accident, the poisoning of factory workers who "painted their teeth and fingernails" with glowing radium paint during the craze that followed the discovery of the element but Demi brings a distinctive voice to the story of this extraordinary scientist. Ages 4 8.
